Toyota Makes Engineering Child’s Play

JAPANESE car maker Toyota is putting the fun into engineering, with its unusual Cammatte. Its role is to help inspire the drivers of the future and show them how car design and engineering can be rewarding and fun.

Making a return to the International Tokyo Toy Show for the third year running, a new Sport version of the Cammatte is on display in the Toyota Design Lab.

It’s hoped that kids - and grown-ups - who love design and finding out how things work will find plenty to entertain them in the latest development of the Toyota Camatte, a car its maker says has been designed for all ages to drive and enjoy.

Visitors of all ages are invited to create their own colourful digital designs and see them reproduced on the car by a mass of LEDs across the bonnet.

Those more interested in the car's nuts-and-bolts qualities can learn about how the car is constructed and the functions of its working parts in a stripped-down model.

By Press Association reporters